| It looked an ambitious project when the bourses of Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels joined forces in 2000 to create a pan-European union of stock exchanges. They then acquired the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) and Portugal’s Bolsa de Valores.
After seven years of independence, Euronext disappeared into the maw of the New York Stock Exchange, which in turn was bought by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in November 2013. ICE has now spat out Euronext, minus LIFFE and its derivatives business. Defining its new role is almost as big a challenge as Euronext faced in the heroic days of its founding...............................................Full Article: Source
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